[OSM-talk] "derivative" work and source/created-by tag
Robert Hart
bathterror at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 17:04:39 BST 2007
On 24/04/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have changed a lot of coastline manually in the last few days,
> often with reference to Landsat imagery. Would you in such cases
> remove the "source" or "created-by" tags on the coastline that refer
> to the coastline importer originally creating the data?
>
> I am asking because I, if I were the writer of the coasline stuff and
> say I found a bug in my script, would be tempted to just delete
> everything that carries my signature and re-import.
>
> However if things have been improved (or at least changed) manually,
> something like that should not happen.
>
> Has my manual change broken the link between the creating script and
> the created segment/way enough so that I am entitled or even expected
> to remove the script's signature tags?
>
I would append landsat to the source, and delete the created-by tag.
Rob
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Robert Hart
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